Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Many of the proposals for carbon nanotubes implementation in display applications have taken advantage of nanotubes capability to act as electron emitting materials for field emission displays. An alternative use of carbon nanotubes for displays is as a replacement for the transparent electrode materials such as ITO used in liquid ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Due to the groundbreaking work of Richard Smalley in the fabrication of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes, Rice University has obtained some pretty broad patent protection for carbon nanotubes over the past few years. The majority of the basic carbon nanotube patents from Rice have so far focused on single walled carbon nanotubes, ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
While much of the original research and development of carbon nanotube technology originated from the U.S. at IBM and Rice University and in Japan at NEC, China has recently become an important player in developing CNT manufacturing techniques and device applications. This article in the Nanotechnology Law & Business journal ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
In order to complement the previous posting I thought it would be interesting to take a look at some of the patent trends regarding graphene sheet materials. As noted in this recent article of the Nanotechnology Law & Business Journal the terminology associated with carbon nanotubes and related nanostructures can ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Trouble is brewing and the carbon wars have begun. It's "sheets" versus "tubes", 2-D vs 3-D, graphene versus nanotubes. Man your battlestations, toss in your bets, and start your research!
Because of some recent news regarding graphene, in this post I will attempt to highlight some of the patentability ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
A recent publication by Professor Hongjie Dai's research team of Stanford's department of Chemistry shows promise for the use of carbon nanotubes in biomedical applications. In their study, Dai's group reports that after injecting mice with single-walled carbon nanotubes, "near-complete clearance [of the nanotubes] from the main organs in ...
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